Mammoths, cold and poverty
How do people in Yakutia earn on mammoth tusks? In Yakutia, in the village of Cossack, on the edge of the eternal permafrost, there were still hunters for mammoth tusks. For a kilogram of ancient treasures, up to 40 thousand rubles are paid, but, as in the days of gold fever, not everyone manages to leave the prey. But if earlier the mammoth hunting was an adventure, now this is a choice: go to the front or look for tusks in the ice desert? How do local hunters live? Who needs mammoth tusks?